Get Go-ing
summary
Overview of Go’s concrete tradeoffs: Go aims for simple syntax and a single static binary (demo binary is ~2.2 MB containing the runtime), with a huge standard library and built-in HTTP, templating and concurrency (goroutines). Major cloud tools are written in Go (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins X) and large shops use it — Uber: ~2,000 microservices. Language specifics: statically typed, garbage-collected, errors are values (no exceptions), slices/arrays, pass-by-value semantics, and recommendation to use Goland or VS Code.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:16Why learn Go language
- 8:12Hello World in Go
- 13:57History and creators of Go
- 22:35Variables and types in Go
- 33:20Functions and error handling
- 41:53Resource management and loops
- 45:44Conditionals and switch statements
- 48:12Functions as types and closures
- 51:26Arrays, slices, and maps
- 54:16Tools and learning resources
